OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its most advanced models after preliminary evidence suggested its upcoming model may hit the critical cybersecurity threshold in its preparedness framework. The company is also standing up monitoring designed to alert within 30 minutes of concerning activity at roughly 20% of the compute cost of the models being watched. Paul explains why the more important detail isn't the pause, it's what the pause reveals: these capabilities aren't being removed, they're being held down. And whatever gets withheld on the closed side has an open-weight equivalent coming. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at MAICON: https://www.MAICON.ai Register for a free webinar: https://smarterx.ai/webinars Connect with us Slack community: https://smarterx.ai/community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smarterxai X/Twitter: https://x.com/aishowpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smarterxai TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aishowpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marketingAIinstitute